"A Pair of Tickets" by Amy Tan & "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

We are all products of our parents, and because of this, we all have different cultures that we cannot get out of.  Both "A Pair of Tickets" by Amy Tan, and "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros show different cultures and different families.  

Amy Tan's, "A Pair of Tickets" is about a girl who is Chinese and grows up in the United States. When her mother dies, she went back to China to live with her dad and her two twin sisters her mother had from her first marriage.  After being in China, and reuniting with her family, she kind of feels like she was "abandoned" for alot of her life because she was never involed with her family, and never that close with her mom for her to tell her stories.  

Sometimes family is really the only thing that actually matters.  "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros is a pretty sad story.  Her family lived in a small house, and when the house started breaking down, her parents promised her they would move into a "good" house that sounded beautiful when imagined, but no so great in real life.  Even though it wasnt what they had pictured, it was still a house to call their own home, and somewhere to sleep.  When someone talks negativly about her house she gets very upset, but when you go back and look it should not be how your living, but who your living with that makes everything matter.